To be honest, I've never had YAST2 work either, it's always ncurses, but the ssh -Y works for other x apps where I need root access.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:26 PM, David Stuart <[email protected]>wrote: > Mark, > > No joy. I tried the SSH -Y, and it immediate 'fell back' to Ncurses. > > I'll have to look into the command line... > > > Dave > > > > > > > > Dave Stuart > Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst > County of Ventura, CA > 805-662-6731 > [email protected]>>> "Mark Pace" <[email protected]> 1/6/2011 > 9:46 AM >>> > Sometimes I have a problem with ssh-X when connecting with one ID but then > running an X program as root. Try using ssh -Y > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:36:35 pm you wrote: > > > Win/XP with cygwin Xserver. I do a ssh -X user @ip, and run YaST2, but > > it > > > never starts. > > > > Maybe your DISPLAY variable is not set in your environment? If it isn't, > > YaST > > will use the ncurses interface instead of X. Once logged in, do "echo > > $DISPLAY" to see if it is set or not. > > - MacK. > > ----- > > Edmund R. MacKenty > > Software Architect > > Rocket Software > > 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA > > Tel: +1.617.614.4321 > > Email: [email protected] > > Web: www.rocketsoftware.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > > visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > > > -- > Mark D Pace > Senior Systems Engineer > Mainline Information Systems > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
